Article About Tupac's Death

 Kia Ora!

I hope that everyone is enojoying lockdown and relaxing. :)

For our home learning writing task our class had to write an article about a person, place or event. This was a free choice and we could choose. I chose to write about Tupac's death. I decided to choose this because while I was searching for who I wanted to write about or what I wanted to write about, I thought that it would be interesting to write about his death. 

I really like the idea of getting to choose what we got to write about. This work for was the first week of lockdown. There was a slideshow about how we could write our articles and what an article is. The slideshow was really helpful and helped me to understand what I had to do.

This is my article:

The Tragedy | Pick a Path

Kia Ora!!

During lockdown we were put into groups for writing. We had our own doc with all the people in our group in it including the teacher. We had to plan or write a pick a path story. Based on a picture. This story is about three mice, a hedgehog and a snake. The main characters are the mice that are in danger of the snake. They do not trust anyone. 

I found hard thinking of what the story was going to be about.

I found it easy to choose the choices for the stories.This is the form.

Under the Bed - Writing

Kia ora, 

While we are on lockdown, I checked the Home learning site. The task was for writing. We had to pick a prompt to write about. I went through the slide to look through the prompts and there was one prompt that I liked the most. It was called under the bed, and it looked like a fun writing prompt to do. So basically the task was to draw a picture in the readers head. 

Here is my Writing:

The screeching sounds were so painful to Michael’s ears.

He managed to pull himself down to see what was under

his bed. As soon as he had his eyes under the bed, the

noise had stopped. Michael had one more good look under

the bed. He didn’t see anything, it was too dark under there.

He was too afraid to go under his bed. 

He quietly got up back onto his bed. As he did slowly, he heard

a different noise this time. It was like something or someone was

trying to escape from under his bed. It was like a loud banging

noise. This time he was scared and wasn’t even able to look

down under his bed. 

Michael put his covers over him and waited for the noise to stop.

Soon later, it was all quiet again. He came out from his covers and

played with his toys again. While he was playing with his toys, his

truck toy fell onto the ground. 

He picked it up. As he picked up the truck, he saw bright, glowing, big

eyes, under his bed…..

Writing

WALT Use descriptive language

In class we are reading this book, it is called The Anzac Violin by Jennifer Beck. The illustrator is Robyn Belton. After we finished reading the book, we had to go to our desks and write a diary entry that is more exciting than the real diary entry. 

We had to make a table and write in some descriptive words that would put a picture in our heads to let us see and imagine what the writing was about. The part that I am writing about is when Alexander had to get on the train. I ended it there. 

We could use a thesaurus to make the words we wrote more exciting and to make our story more exciting and more descriptive. I used a thesaurus twice during my story because I had a look at my words and they were kind of boring so I wanted to change it.

So we were making a better diary entry to the one that we have read. We could be anyone in the story, I was Alexander. 

Here is my Diary entry:

I stood there in shock, as I watched what was happening.

I heard footsteps, big loud ones. I turned around and there

was a shadow of a big man holding a gun. I went closer and

as I got closer the shadow had disappeared. I creeped

over towards a bunch of boxes. I hid as I heard the fear in

their screams. 

It was a windy cool night. There were people hiding everywhere.

I heard engines roaring. As I walked away from the sound I saw beaming lights.

They were bright. I looked and saw that there were boats disappearing

into the distance. 

I walked back to the sounds and away from the boats. I saw people

falling down as I walked towards the boxes. 

I got back to the boxes. When I turned around I saw the same beaming

lights but they were coming closer. I looked around to see if I could go

hide somewhere else But it was too late. 

The lights were close and they could see me. I tried running but they

caught me and yelled at me to stop. 

I stopped, I was scared and didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know

who they were and if they were going to hurt me. These random

guys came and took me to a train. I had to get onto the train.

As the train sped, the gunshots were fading away. But every

time I think about this memory I can still hear screams from the horror.

Descriptive Writing Prompts

In class we have been doing some descriptive writing. We had to make a copy of this slideshow and it was with pictures. We had to describe the pictures that were on the slideshow. I finished doing that today. We had to describe the pictures with four sentences with a topic out of these topics. You will know what topics they are once you read them. The 2 slide was a example of what sentences we have to write.
Here is the Slideshow:



Let me know if there is anything I need to work on!

Shared Writing

In class we were put in groups of 3. This was for our writing task. I had four people in my group because there was an extra person. We had to write a story all together on a shared slideshow and then what we had to do next was to make it a picture book. I worked with Tini, Tyler and Liam. We used the storybook topics. Our topic was about a villain escaping a dragons lair.       Here is my DLO:

Sheep and Ant

In class for writing we got put into groups. This was for a writing activity that we were to do. It was to make a slideshow and we got given a character, settings, problem for our story from our teacher. We had to come up with our own solution. Our problem was that there was an ant that was alergic to trees and the settings was in a jungle. Our characters were an ant and a sheep. I picked the sheep because I couldn't stp thinking of an sheep. We had one slide each to do. There was four people in our group it was Liam, Myself, Tini and Tyler. I got to pick who I wanted in my group and it was Liam. I picked Liam because he had a creative mind.

Here is Our DLO:

Spring

In class we had been doing some season writing. We were writing about what our favourite season was. My favourite season is Spring. There are a lot of special things about spring. We also made some pictures on paper with layers. What season do you like the best and why?

Here is my Writing:

There are a lot of other seasons but out of all of them I like

spring the best. Spring is my favourite out of all because it

is a very different season to all the others. Spring

can be both warm and cold which makes you happy. Spring

is also when the trees start blooming and animals are born.

When it is spring the sky is always changing colours that

you never see in other seasons.

I like spring because you can find a lot of trees blooming.

Trees only start blooming in spring. You could never find

any other tree blooming in Summer, Winter or Autumn.

Spring is a time when plants start growing. It is a time

when there are a lot of newborn animals and also it is a

growing time. 

Early in the mornings in the spring, if you look out your window,

there is a beautiful colour in the sky. It usually changes

colours before people are getting up. Also sometimes in

the day if you just look up to the sky you could see this beautiful

colour that is like a pinky colour mixed with black at the bottom.

You can see colours like this in other seasons but in spring there

are a lot of different colours, but with other seasons it usually

just sticks to one or two colours.

Spring is never too hot or too cold. It always has a warm breeze.

It's like there is a certain limit of the weather, whether it is really hot

or really cold. There is a good weather in spring because it's not

too hot and not too cold it's just right and warm. When it comes to

spring you get this good feeling which makes you feel happy,

because you know that it's going to be spring!

In spring you can do a lot of things, like play sports in warm

weather because it’s better than playing in cold weather. Volleyball

is what I would say is a good sport for spring. I think that because

volleyball keeps you working and going so you can move a lot and

also get your heart pumping, also volleyball can be a good way to

make friends. 

Those were the reasons why I like spring. Spring can be

a very popular season, but so can summer. Spring is a

season that is like summer, and autumn is a season like

winter. Spring is like summer because it is a very warm

season. Autumn is like winter because it is kind of cold in

autumn. Spring is a very warm season and mostly the sun

is shining.

The New Church

Today on October 17th 2018, the whole school had mass in the new church. The church started being built from last year on term 4 at the end of the term. So we all waited for a really long time for the church to be built but the workers did a really great job with the church. So my class room 4 wrote a google doc and it was all about the new church. So here is my piece of writing:

New Church

When We were standing outside the church ready to go in I felt excited because when I looked through the doors it looked very nice. Also on the outside of the church it was all white and a little navy blue. When I walked in I saw pictures and I also saw a little room that had cupboards. We walked further and I saw this big bronze bowl filled with holy water. Then I saw Mr. Norman telling us to use our right hand and put your hand into the water and then you had to do the Sign Of The Cross. I also saw two statues, when I saw them I thought that they were only statues of Mary but the other statue was of our Saint (St. Bernadette.).

I thought the the church was so big. There was the seats on each side of the church. On the right side at the back the choir was all sitting there with little booklets. On the right side again in the front there was three classes sitting down, but at the very front on the right side there was students sitting there waiting to read their prayers. On the left side that was where me and my class were sitting with two other classes. I also saw that in the middle of the church in the very front there was a statue hanging from these poles and it was of Jesus on the cross.

The church was warm, it looked so nice the way that it was decorated. On the top of the building there is a red cross and a black ceiling. We sang one song called One Faith, One Hope. On the walls there was a yellow background and then there was little brown squares with pictures on them and just below there was a brown tree. Father Palo said that Jesus is the vines and we are all the branches. The seats were wooden seats that were smooth you could slide on them. The carpet was kind of itchy. The church was absolutely big and kind of small.

The constructors started building the church at the end of term four last year. So at the start of this year the whole school sat under the shades for prayer assembly, then it was winter so the prayer assembly were split into two prayer assemblies. So there was a Senior prayer assembly and a Junior prayer assembly, Senior prayers were in room six and junior prayers were in the library. But today everyone has gone to church, so we don’t have to go to different prayer assemblies.

Where Is Mrs Lee?

Detective:When was the last time you saw Mrs Lee? Talia:Well we went on a museum trip and then Mrs Lee went into the Big Bubble Yellow Sun with Angel and Talia and than Angel and Talia came out and waited till Mrs Lee came out but no one came out. Detective:So who came out than? Talia:I told you no one came out.But when we looked to see if she was there,the Big Bubble Yellow Sun was empty and no one was there. Detective:OK Now it’s time that you answer the question. Angel:Ok Detective:Now When was the last time you saw Mrs Lee? Angel:I last saw her at the museum. Detective:OK Have you seen her anywhere else? Angel:No Detective:Ok Well next question. Talia:Ok Detective:Has Mrs Lee been coming to school lately? Talia:No not at all.She was supposed to come in the classroom last week on Wednesday, but she didn’t come at all. Detective:Was she around the school? Talia:No i didn’t see her last week. Detective:Ok We will be back to this tomorrow.You got me? Talia:Nope Detective:Good.Goodbye for now. Talia and Angel:Bye

The Red Pill

I opened my eyes and there was a yuck creature looking at me, I didn’t know what it was. “Hello” It said “Hi” I replied “Why are you here lying on the dirty ground? I must ask” It asked “I think I tripped over. What are you supposed to be?” I asked “Can’t you see? I’m a sloth.” The sloth said “OK what’s your name?” I asked “My name is Lina” She said “Can you help me? I’m was with my family but then I got lost while they were all talking” I asked “Sure I can help you but first if you want my help you have to do something for me and my yuck looking sloths” Lina said “Ok that’s fine with me” I said I stood up and followed Lina. “Here, can you please just lift some of these fruits to where I tell you to please?” Lina asked “Ok” I said A few minutes later I finished with what they told me to do. Lina opened a bag of pills. She said “Pick one and I will tell you what it does to you” I picked the red pill. She said “This pill gives you super speed, super strength and rapid renagirations.” “Thank you” I said “Why do you choose this red pill?” Lina asked “Because it has super speed and I need to get to my family quick before it gets dark” I said “So where are you going to go now” Lina asked “All the way to my house” I said bravely “Why to your home?” Lina said confused “Because they would always go home if someone from the family gets lost” I said “Ok thank you for your work that you did for us” Lina said “No thank you actually” I said Lina was about to say something but I swallowed the red pill and quickly did my super speed to home. When I got home I went inside the house and I was back with my family, they were all so happy when they saw me. I was also so happy to see them too. So I went to my room I went and I jumped into my bed and had a really long sleep. The next day I tried doing my secret powers but I couldn’t. We went for another walk, I saw the sloth, I asked “Wait did you try to say something?” She said “I just wanted to say that if you went to sleep it will all go away.” “What will go away?” “Your super powers” 

So I walked away with my family.

The End

Information Report About St.Bernadettes

Walt:Write a information report about our school.

In our class we have been learning how to write a information report about our school.We read a information report about firefighters.But this one is about St. Bernadettes School.

The real name of our school is called “St.Bernadettes School”.St.Bernadettes school is a catholic school.

Breakfast Club

In our school we have breakfast club.Breakfast club is only in the mornings.Sometimes it is not every morning.How we know that there is breakfast club is because there is always a cardboard sign outside next to the classroom saying “Breakfast is Ready!Come on in!”.So we can go to breakfast club and we don’t need to be signed in we just can go in.But only on the days that breakfast club is on.These mornings are:Tuesdays and Thursdays.The helpers are Sister Monika and one of the students mum.In breakfast club there is:Raw Nuts,Normal Nuts,Muesli Bars,Toast and Weetbix to eat.For drinks there is :Water or Milk.

Cultural Group

For cultural group we get asked if we want to join.So there is one cultural group where they don’t need that much people.The other group is where there is a lot of people that get to do it.So right now for cultural group they are doing Kapa Haka.For cultural group also Sister Monika teaches the group with a lot of people and the senior girls from 6 teach the other cultural group.

Choir

Choir is in room 2.Choir is where we practice how to sing and we also practice singing new songs.I use to be in choir but i quit because we didn’t get time to eat all our lunch and we also didn’t have time to play.So that is why i quit choir and also choir was really cool but there was no time to spend time with my friends.

Playgrounds/Classrooms

In our school we have 3 playgrounds and 6 classrooms.So one of our playgrounds is the junior playground.The junior playground is very colourful but no seniors aloud on the junior playground.The second playground is the senior.On the senior playground there is a sign that says “No Trespassing”.The third playground is the adventure playground.The adventure playground is for everyone to play on.

Teachers/Principals/Children/Staff

In the school there is 7 teachers and 15 staff and 7 other teachers.We have one principal and than we have 132 children in the school.So our principal is Mr. Norman.In my class we have 25 people in my class and 25 people in room 5, than 15 in room 2, 14 in room 1, 23 in room 8 and than 29 in room 6.Teachers names are:Mrs Holland, Miss Lee, Mrs Lee, Mrs Wilton, Mrs Bergin, Miss Mitchell and Mrs Saderly.

This school is a really good school for other people to come to this school.

Animal poetry

Walt write a poem about our favourite animal

Animal Poetry By Talia

I like Birds

Ask me why?

Because they can fly,

Because their nest is high up in the sky.

Because their smaller,

Because they are smaller but others are taller.

Because they are blue and brown,

Because they never fall to the ground.

Because their eyes are blue,

Because they never catch a flue.

Because they are awake in the light,

Because their never awake at night.

Because they have wings,

Because they always sing.

That’s why i like Birds